I could write many thoughts for this column as we start off a New Year. A New Year should be a time of hope and…
Hello everybody, and hooray! It is 2021. And I will no longer be identifying these columns as “Covid Editions”—now that a new administration will be…
Written on 12/08/2020 It’s a humbling thought, but I don’t suppose that any of my readers, much loved though you are, particularly noticed that I…
Written on 11/25/2000 I grew up in a culturally Jewish home, but we were not religious. We sang some prayers (sort of—nobody knew more than…
Written on 11-17-20. Quite a few of my friends are expressing relief at the presumed election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. To be honest, I…
Written on 11-10-20 it is necessary to write we live in a time in which reality is under attack by goonsthey are powerful they are…
Written on 11-04-20 As election night approached, I became more and more distressed in mysterious ways. It is clear that I am changing. After four…
Written on 10-27-2020. This morning I slept late. I was avoiding the world. I didn’t want to deal. When I finally got up, I abandoned…
Written on 10-20-2020. Hello darkness, my old friend. I don’t think I’m alone in discovering that, as the COVID crisis continues—can we even call it…
Written On 10/13/20 Today I look back on exactly seven months without going to work as a substitute teacher or anything else. Seven months without…